Making sense of Tow #'s
Looking at buying my first truck and need some help with Towing. We're planning to get an RV in a year or 2 and I want it to do it right the first time! Looking at a 2011 F150 Supercrew Ecoboost w...
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handye9 wrote:
It's amazing how fast the weight adds up. Average load of dishes, pots / pans, bedding, BBQ, camp chairs, groceries, water, etc, is 10 - 1200 lbs. If you get in a situation where you have to tow with full tanks, thats 8 - 10 lbs for every gallon in black and grey tanks. Don't know about trailers the OP is looking at, but my TT has 112 gallons combined black and grey. Thats about 1000 lbs right there.
OP - You may want to verify your payload. Very possible, that 1850 number is a generic F150 max payload. If so, that would be max payload for a stripped down 2 wheel drive model.
Thanks. I was wondering what an average for all that stuff would be. Most likely I'd never travel with the tanks full - we're mainly looking at campground camping so emptying tanks before we leave would not be an issue.
The 1850 is straight off the yellow sticker on the truck. I verified it after the test drive.
